Live in the presence of God, mindful of his love, grateful for life, and enriched by sacraments and sacramentals
A month ago, my wife and I were helping with a youth retreat. For one of the segments, we all went to a chapel and had a beautiful hour of Eucharistic Adoration. The prayers and singing were beautiful and moving. Before moving to quiet reflection and adoration the priest said
Solitude. Silence. Peacefulness. Ever Friday I go to the Adoration chapel and spend an hour praying with Jesus. Many times I bring my Bible or a book on the Eucharist. Recently I had to give a presentation on the reason why God became man and died on the cross. So
I always use Holy Water as I enter church as a way to purify myself from “the world” and mentally enter a sacred space. We also always keep a bottle of Holy Water at home for certain occasions such as blessing a new car or blessing our grandson before he
How will we change or transform in heaven? To be honest I have never thought about this question. All I have ever focused on is that if God has mercy on my soul and I get to enter through the pearly gates I will be able to experience God’s
“There must, therefore, be still higher perfections in man to dispose him to be moved by God. These perfections are called Gifts, not only because they are infused by God, but also because they dispose him to become readily mobile to divine inspiration, as is said in Isaiah: The Lord
"God does not ask a great deal of us: a brief remembrance from time to time, a brief act of adoration, occasionally to ask him for his grace or offer him your sufferings, at other times to thank him for the graces he has given you and is giving
Do we need grace in our lives? To be saved and go to heaven we need to believe in Jesus and follow his teachings, sincerely and deeply repent for our sins, be baptized, and be in a state of grace at the moment of death. Grace is essential for our
Spiritual discernment is the process of making decisions in a way that align to God’s will and thus maximizes our long-term ability to become closer to God and to better love and serve Him. I use the phrase “Walking humbly with God” as a reminder to live in the
In 2008 I visited Ireland on business. My wife, Angie, and I took the opportunity to journey to the northwest part of Ireland and visit the small village of Knock. More specifically, we visited the Catholic Knock Shrine in County Mayo, a shrine previously visited by Pope John Paul II
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Have you ever thought of yourself as a prophet? We are called to be prophets but why and how do we live this calling? We normally think of prophets as Biblical people from ancient times like Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Daniel. What if I told you that all Baptized Christians
This week the Catholic Church celebrated the Feast of Corpus Christi, also known as the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ. In this feast we celebrate the wonderful gift of Jesus’ real presence in the Eucharist. We honor His body, blood, soul, and divinity truly and
It seems that we humans were created with a hunger and thirst for something greater than ourselves. We anxiously crave more. Some people call it a “God hole’ that can only be fulfilled by God. Even Bertrand Russell, a British philosopher, logician, and atheist said: “The center of me is